“…In impulsivity tasks, STN lesion consistently increased the rate of trial omissions and response latency Robbins, 1997, 1999a;Winstanley et al, 2005), which can be interpreted as decreased motivation (Robbins, 2002;Higgins and Silenieks, 2017) (Figures 3, 6). However, when assayed using classical FR or PR operant tasks, STN lesion either increased (Baunez et al, 2002(Baunez et al, , 2005Uslaner et al, 2008;Montanari et al, 2018) or did not change (Baunez et al, 2005;Bezzina et al, 2008;Winter et al, 2008) self-administration of food or sucrose. Decreased cocaine or ethanol taking is the predominantly reported effect of STN lesion (Baunez et al, 2005;Pelloux and Baunez, 2017;Pelloux et al, 2018).…”